Supper by me.....

an interesting title!  Jesse normally does all the cooking here at Promise House.  He helps me out tons when he cooks plus the girls love it!  Since we came back on duty this time he has been sick.  (Which this has been almost 10 days!)  On one of the days that he was not feeling well I made a run to Kroger to buy some red beans and sausage.  I was going to make supper for the night.  When the girls heard that I was cooking they were just a tid bit apprehensive!  But that was ok with me I continued to make the receipe of  Camellia's Famous New Orleans Style Red Beans and Rice.  The girls enjoyed the meal.  Our kids would say: Red beans and rice again!  We ate tons of this meal while Jesse was in seminary.  But it is easy to cook and inexpensive for a family of 5, 6, or more!

For my Arkansas friends that love pinto beans there is a recipe on Camellia's Family Recipe Page, Connelly's Macho Pintos.  By the way, the girls love pinto beans so maybe next week we will have them for supper one night.

Arlyn's Rolling Pin Custom Cakes and 8 little purses...

Arlyn Howard who has a custom cake business, Arlyn's Rolling Pin, visited with us here at Promise House today.  Arlyn was so sweet to come to share how to make a small cake for each girl.  She actually brought two cakes per girl which turned out to look like small purses.  She had made a bigger cake that was a replica of the small cakes that the girls made...

The girls started with a round piece of cardboard which Arlyn showed them how to wrap the circle so that the cake would have something pretty to sit upon...

Next the girls started the wrapping of the fondant icing...

They were all busy placing the fondant icing over the cake and smoothing thewrinkles out...

Next the girls took a butter knife and cut away the edges at the bottom of the cake...

Now we are getting ready to start the decorating as soon as we ....

put the handles on our purses! hehe....

See...we are close to being finished....

Finishing up the final touches....

Now look at what we created...so cute!

(We had one more but she had already wrote her name in icing in front of the cake so I couldn't post it on here)

Great job Girls!!!  I am so very proud of you!

A great big thank you to Arlyn for all the time that you gave to us to prepare for this and to come here to the house to teach us how to decorate cakes.  The girls loved it!

Who is that calling my name?

Jesse has been sick with bronchitus this week.  I have been pulling a little extra duty where he would normally help me out here at Promise House.  My name is ever so popular...Mrs. Susan....Mrs. Susan...I can almost say it is almost like when my own children were little and I heard the word Momma every 15 seconds! 
Some of the Mrs. Susan's of the week have been:

      Mrs. Susan:  How long are you and Mr. Jesse gonna work here at Promise House?

      Mrs. Susan:  Have you really ever cooked before? (ha! Mr. Jesse normally does all the cooking)

      Mrs. Susan:  I didn't wash my clothes on Tuesday which was my day to wash...can I wash them tonight?

      Mrs. Susan:  You really have three kids? 

      Mrs. Susan:  Did you have to have a C Section? (please remember we are house parents of a maternity home)

       Mrs. Susan:  I can't sing Happy Birthday cause I will spit all over her birthday cake!


 The last one I will share but by no ways the last one for the week!  As I tell the girls in the van after picling them up from school that we are going to have to stop for gas due to the tank almost being on the
"E"...I hear from the back seat...Mrs. Susan...I am just gonna die right here if I don't get a drink of water right now!   

Scarecrows and Fall...o my!

I love Fall time. We have been busy decorating our home here at Promise House. I wanted a scarecrow for our outside door decoration. I was having trouble finding one that I really, really liked. So I came up with the idea, since I have all this fall fabric between what belonged to my mom and what I have bought over the years!



So with a 99 cent special pattern and a small bag of rafia....tada! My very own scarecrow! almoist finished here....gotta make a face tomorrow...more pics later! By the way this is a costume now featured as a scarecrow for display! ha!

Just a quick look at our fall decorations at Promise House! The girls love the homey feel that we now have! We do plan on painting pumkins in the future.....will show more pics of their artistic selves!